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Such circular financing arrangements provide fodder for AI skeptics who suspect the AI ecosystem is a bubble that can’t expand without companies subsidizing each other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Since then, she’s become the subject of tabloid fodder and a variety of entertainment projects, including a Hulu show based on her life, “The Dropout.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

First developed in the 18th Century as a high-yield fodder crop.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I mean, the whole world of the MFA felt like fodder for horror.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Mind you, I’m not one to gossip. You remember that, Ophelia. The lives of your betters are not fodder for your amusement.”

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

When good leguminous fodders are fed, from 33 to 50 per cent. less grain will suffice than would be called for when non-leguminous fodders only are fed.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

They love the stack and hay-barn in the distant field, where the farmer fodders his cattle upon the snow, and every red-root, ragweed, or pigweed left standing in the fall adds to their winter stores.

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs

That there is in the State an enormous area of land which is eminently adaptable to the growing of fodders necessary for successful dairying has been amply demonstrated.

From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

Dairymen prefer it to nearly all kinds of fodders grown, and the same is true of shepherds.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw

The Chondrosium foeneum is one of the finest fodders in the world for the food of cattle, almost equal to unthrashed oats.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid

In summer again, when the great heat dries 45everything up, they are foddered with hay under shelter.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Father sends me out to mend gaps that were mended, or cut turf that was cut, or fodder horses that were foddered.

From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Rutherford Mayne

At 2 p.m., or thereabouts, they are foddered again, and at 4 p.m. receive the same food as at the morning meal.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron

The cows came briskly to the rack in which he foddered them in pleasant weather, and when he scratched them between the horns they turned their mild, Juno-like eyes upon him with undisguised affection.

From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe

So I went out again and foddered and watered the mare, for Peter is sometimes a sad fatch and will not always give a horse what is worth its trouble in the eating.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine

When foddering, to cheer the Poor herd in the stall— While each creature is moaning, And sickening in thrall.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

At this time, although no snow may have fallen, it is best to give the sheep a light, daily foddering of bright hay, and a few oats in the bundle.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings

The old bread of London, the soiled, stale crusts can be used in foddering the horses which are employed in collecting the waste.

From In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth

Alas! what with foddering the cattle and tending the store, we are kept from school too long, and our education is sadly neglected.

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

In the steady cold weather of the North, the shepherd readily learns to determine about how much hay will be consumed before the next foddering time.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings